Vision thereby, is the means by which your brain perceives the world and gathers information from the world in order to interact with it. To me that is the reason eyes appear so filled with meaning and so mysterious. They are video cameras on the front of our skull that instantly permits us to relate to the world about us.

However, I don't think that your eyes are merely receptive organs, but are organs also of giving. They reflect our soul, where we are in life, who we are at any particular moment - emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually.In a similar manner, I feel that to really enhance the clarity of your vision, you must understand that the process of seeing is a relationship with between you and your environment and you need to develop yourself as a whole being.Even a fundamental level, sight consists of the close relationship between the perceiver and the object of perception. More profoundly, vision changes based on your relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your town, the earth, and your Spirit. Therefore, your final goal should not stop with visual clarity, but, rather, move toward spiritual soundness.

Therefore yoga and a philosophy of natural vision work together to support mind-body unity. Natural Vision Therapy HistoryGlasses have been around for a long, long time. Vision therapy predates glasses by thousands of years. The Egyptians employed vision therapy. For example, people who suffered from conditions such as eye teaming weaknesses were treated by utilizing a mask with two little holes in it for the eyes, placed far apart. The person with convergent eyes had to exercise his two eyes so that they could see out of the holes.

Vision therapy's historic use is important. Many of us incorrectly believe that vision therapy was developed only a century or so ago by William Bates (the well-known Bates eye exercises). But although Bates' teachings had a great impact on popular understanding - that we have the capacity to develop better vision if we'd only exercise our eyes, he didn't invent that concept. The Greek philosophers came to a very good understanding of the process, partly because they themselves were consciously trying to understand the world.

The Greeks understood that vision is a dynamic, changing process, which involves a relationship, an interaction, between that which is seen and the seer. Plato insisted that our eyes take in energy and also send forth energy. He believed that the eyes not only took in images, but perceived information. Plato insisted that part of oneself that really saw the world, was the human soul.

By the 2nd century, during the Roman Empire, the idea of improving vision naturally, had at least partially been replaced by using lenses to correct sight. There is no evidence that actual glasses, as we know them, were fabricated, but Pliny reports that Nero held a ring with a concave gem set in it before his eye in order to better see the games in the Roman Coliseum.

Philosophy of Natural VisionNowadays we, as doctors, think of vision problems like myopia as normal. We pay attention to the clarity of the image so exclusively that we tend towards missing diagnosis of many other types of vision disorders, such as image suppression or eye teaming. Instead, we just prescribe a pair of glasses for 20/20 vision.

You need to be aware that wearing glasses has not ever cured vision problems of two eyes. It never has and it never will. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Why? When those new lenses make vision more clear the person behind the glasses, or rather, the eyes behind the glasses stop putting out the extra effort to see and let the glasses do the work. For that reason, a year or so later, most patients need new glasses with stronger lenses.

Remember, the Greek philosophers did not ask, "What can be held before the eyes to make vision more clear?" They asked "What can be done to help these eyes perceive more correctly and see more clearly?"Dr. Marc Grossman. Our Colleague at www.naturaleyecare.com